Research Design, Mobile Data Collection, Mapping and Data Analysis using NVIVO and SPSS Course
Details
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Organizer: Foscore Development Center
Course Fee inclusive of VAT: $ 2,320.00
INTRODUCTION
New developments in data science offer a tremendous opportunity to improve decision-making. In the development world, there has been an increase in the number of data gathering initiative such as baseline surveys, Socio-Economic Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys, Nutrition Surveys, Food Security Surveys, Program Evaluation Surveys, Employees, customers and vendor satisfaction surveys, and opinion polls among others, all intended to provide data for decision making.
It is essential that these efforts go beyond merely generating new insights from data but also to systematically enhance individual human judgment in real development contexts.
How can organizations better manage the process of converting the potential of data science to real development outcomes? How can organizations go beyond merely generating new insights to changing behaviors — not only of their employees, but beneficiary and communities too?
This ten days hands-on course is tailored to put all these important consideration into perspective.
It is envisioned that upon completion, the participants will be empowered with the necessary skills to produce accurate and cost effective data and reports that are useful and friendly for decision making.
It will be conducted using ODK, GIS, NVIVO and SPSS
DURATION
2 Weeks
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand and appropriately use statistical terms and concepts
- Design and Implement universally acceptable Surveys
- Convert data into various formats using appropriate software
- Use mobile data gathering tools such as Open Data Kit (ODK)
- Use GIS software to plot and display data on basic maps
- Qualitative data analysis using NVIVO
- Perform basic data analysis tasks with SPSS
- Perform simple to complex data management tasks using SPSS
- Correctly identify appropriate statistical test for basic analysis s and perform them using SPSS
- Write reports from survey data
- Put strategies to improve data demand and use in decision making
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This is a general course targeting participants with elementary knowledge of Statistics from Agriculture, Economics, Food Security and Livelihoods, Nutrition, Education, Medical or public health professionals among others who already have some statistical knowledge, but wish to be conversant with the concepts and applications of statistical modeling.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Module1: Basic statistical terms and concepts
- Introduction to statistical concepts
- Descriptive Statistics
- Inferential statistics
Module 2:Research Design
- The role and purpose of research design
- Types of research designs
- The research process
- Which method to choose?
- Exercise: Identify a project of choice and developing a research design
Module 3: Survey Planning, Implementation and Completion
- Types of surveys
- The survey process
- Survey design
- Methods of survey sampling
- Determining the Sample size
- Planning a survey
- Conducting the survey
- After the survey
- Exercise: Planning for a survey based on the research design selected
Module 4:Introduction
- Introduction to Mobile Data gathering
- Benefits of Mobile Applications
- Data and types of Data
- Introduction to common mobile based data collection platforms
- Managing devices
- Challenges of Data Collection
- Data aggregation, storage and dissemination
- Types of questions
- Data types for each question
- Types of questionnaire or Form logic
- Extended data types geoid, image and multimedia
Module 5:Survey Authoring
- Design forms using a web interface using:
o ODK Build
o Koboforms
o PurcForms
- Hands-on Exercise
Module 6:Preparing the mobile phone for data collection
- Installing applications: ODK Collect
o Using Google play
o Manual install (.apk files)
- Configuring the device (Mobile Phones)
- Uploading the form into the mobile devices
- Hands-on Exercise
Module 7:Designing forms manually: Using XLS Forms
- Introduction to XLS forms syntax
- New data types
- Notes and dates
- Multiple choice Questions
- Multiple Language Support
- Hints and Metadata
- Hands-on Exercise
Module 8:Advanced survey Authoring
- Conditional Survey Branching
o Required questions
o Constraining responses
o Skip: Asking Relevant questions
o The specify other
- Grouping questions
o Skipping many questions at once (Skipping a section)
- Repeating a set of questions
- Special formatting
- Making dynamic calculations
Module 9:Hosting survey data (Online)
- ODK Aggregate
- Formhub
- ona.io
- KoboToolbox
- Uploading forms to the server
Module 10:Hosting Survey Data (Configuring a local server)
- Configuring ODK Aggregate on a local server
- Downloading data
- Manual download (ODK Briefcase)
- Using the online server interface
Module 11: GIS mapping of survey data using QGIS
- Introduction to GIS for Researchers and data scientists
- Importing survey data into a GIS
- Mapping of survey data using QGIS
- Exercise: QGIS mapping exercise.
Module 12:Understanding Qualitative Research
- Qualitative Data
- Types of Qualitative Data
- Sources of Qualitative data
- Qualitative vs Quantitative
- NVivo key terms
- The NVivo Workspace
Module 13:Preliminaries of Qualitative data Analysis
- What is qualitative data analysis
- Approaches in Qualitative data analysis; deductive and inductive approach
- Points of focus in analysis of text data
- Principles of Qualitative data analysis
- Process of Qualitative data analysis
General Notes
- All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants needs
- The participant must be conversant with English
- Presentations are well guided, practical exercise, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are expert with more than 10years of experience.
- Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with Foscore development center certificate (FDC-K)
- Training will be done at Foscore development center (FDC-K) center in Nairobi Kenya. We also offer more than five participants training at requested location within Kenya, more than ten participant within east Africa and more than twenty participant all over the world.
- Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
- The course fee includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance and other personal expenses.
- Accommodation, pickup, freight booking and Visa processing arrangement, are done on request, at discounted prices.
- One year free Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.
- Register as a group of more than two and enjoy discount of (10% to 50%) plus free five hour adventure drive to the National game park.
- Payment should be done two week before commence of the training, to FOSCORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER account, so as to enable us prepare better for you.
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